Microcenter has some decent dongles for roughly <a href="http://bit.ly/twte5S">$20</a> dollars that work well. I haven't found one yet that didn't work with Either Fedora 14 (or newer) or Ubuntu 10.04 (or Newer). Bluetooth is pretty much standardized within Linux. However, the capabilities you're speaking of may not be present natively in all distros. <br>
<br>Hope this helps. <br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Peter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kendric Beachey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kendric.beachey@gmail.com">kendric.beachey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">This month's Linux Journal has an article about making your computer<br>
auto-lock when you leave your desk, and auto-unlock when you return,<br>
by sensing the leaving/returning of the bluetooth phone in your<br>
pocket. (You DO take your mobile phone with you....don't you??) We<br>
have a few jokesters around here that make this sound like a good<br>
idea.<br>
<br>
But neither my desktop nor my laptop have built-in bluetooth, at least<br>
not anything Ubuntu 11.10 can find. Does anyone know of a good<br>
bluetooth dongle that works well with Linux? (and is fairly<br>
affordable?)<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Kendric Beachey<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers!<br><br>Peter J. Cross<br>San Antonio, TX <br><br>"Experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions"<br>-James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 51<br>
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